I remember watching the highlights of Stoke's first win during their debut Premier League season against O'Neill's Villa. Delap's long throw-ins wreaked absolute havoc and caused huge problems for Villa throughout the entire game, and ultimately led to Stoke's winning goal in injury-time. Ricardo Fuller (a player that I was a big fan of since his days at Preston) scored a superb goal in that same game.
Then in Stoke's next home game, another very good team Moyes's Everton struggled to deal with those throw-ins as well, and were very relieved to win the game in the end.